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Sosus
(217 words)
[German version] (Σῶσος/
Sôsos). The only Greek mosaicist to be both known from written sources (Plin. HN 36,184) and from extant Roman copies of the Imperial Period. S. was active in the 2nd cent. BC in Pergamum. There he created
i.a. a
pavimentum in
opus tessellatum (Mosaic II.B.), recorded in literature and in copies, depicting doves surrounded by what is known as
asárōtos oîkos (unswept floor littered with the remains of a meal). According to Pliny, S. came particularly close to nature in this work. Earlier studies [4] interpreted dove mosaics and the
asárōtos oîkos as symbolical…
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Brill’s New Pauly
Nile Mosaic
(445 words)
[German version] A. General The NM comes from the sanctuary of Fortuna in Praeneste. With a second large
pavimentum from the same building complex, the so-called Fish Mosaic [1. Cat. no. 15], it is housed in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Palestrina. It was assembled and reconstructed from several parts; its reconstructed total size is 6.55×5.25 m. The present reconstruction has been challenged by [8. 60ff.]. The mosaic shows an Egyptian coastal landscape with groups of hunters, soldiers and priests as well as…
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Brill’s New Pauly
Pavimentum
(813 words)
[German version] I. Introduction Although only a small part of the
pavimenta (floor coverings) in ancient buildings was decorated, scholars have paid a great deal of attention to them, esp. to those decorated with mosaics (other floor coverings generally only appear in scholarly literature in relation to the identification of their ancient terminology). In Pompeii only 2.5% of floors were decorated with mosaics, a further 7% were decorated with cement floors and the rest of the buildings are floored with undecorated stone or cement
pavimenta or even stamped earth.
Pavimenta were alw…
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Brill’s New Pauly
Mosaic
(3,403 words)
[German version] I. Phoenician-Punic A fundamental technical innovation in the creation of floors first occurred in the 5th cent. BC in the region of Carthage (Kerkouane) [1]: the surface was designed with the help of small, rectangular or almost square cubes (
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Brill’s New Pauly